I haven’t been able to post as often or as in depth as I’d like to have this past month. I chalk it up mostly to work, we all love 12 hour days right? But now that sign-off has passed and our last release of 2007 is calmly approaching (its on Friday), things have settled down a bit. Below are some great links from October, most of which I wanted to mention at some point and haven’t gotten a chance to until now. Enjoy.
- The JavaScript Library for Google Calendar was released. This allows for authenticated, cross domain access. Hopefully Picasa Web will follow suit.
- GWT goes to the iPhone
- The Python Client Library came out with version 1.0.8
- The Digg Oracle demonstrates Gears’ Worker Pool
- Google’s Stock broke $600. It is now well over $700
- Orkut ramps up for a US push
- Vortex combines the know-how of Dojo and Gears
- LabeledMarker v1.1 in Google Maps comes out with Marker and Label toggling
- Google Reader comes out with Subscriber stats. Read about the controversy here. Google responds here
- Google Maps Goes Social
- The AJAX Search API gives direct access to YouTube Channels
- Blogger GData JavaScript client library released with offline Blogger client example
- Google Code Search goes to SiteMaps
- The Ajax API gets Dynamic Feed Control
- You can now play Youtube videos in Google Earth
- Summer of code wrapped up with Graduation
- Google Finance adds new Gadgets and an API
- YouTubes player becomes Customizable
- A Greasemonkey script lets you have nested folders in Gmail
- Blogger adds Comment Notification
- Google cracks down on pages selling PageRank links
- Google contributes to MySQL
- Google Mac updates Leopard
- Gmail enables IMAP
- Google Maps gets Clickable Polygons
- There is now a wizard for adding Google Gadgets to your blog
- Webmaster central fixes the Cross Domain Sitemap errors
- Google maps adds Flash Content into KLM
- Google Notebook adds labels and bookmarks
- Blog Search is now included in Google History
- A cheap “Google PC” is on the market
- A new Photo Picker for Gmail and Orkut pulls from Picasa
- GTalk may soon be able to connect to other networks like AIM and Yahoo! Talk
- The new version of Gmail comes out
- Google Code gets a facelift
- Webmaster Tools gets Geographic Targeting
- The Google Gadget Directory gets a facelift
- Microsoft is going to release the Microsoft Sync Framework to compete with Gears
- Picasa Web gets opened. (Flikr can transfer a picasa album to itself)
- Webmasters can now provide feedback on sitelinks
- Blog.gears comes out
- Mapplets gets a documentation and example update
- New articles are posted for KML
- The Ajax slideshow gets a full Control Panel
- Map of the Dead!! Google Maps overlay shooting game!
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